Bulk Solids Solutions in Polyolefin Production

Plastics Focus Series: Dry End to Wet End Polyolefin Production

Polyolefin production includes two distinctive process sections: wet-end process and dry-end phases. The wet-end process can be high pressure or low pressure. The dry-end process consists of Phase 1, called the formulation phase and Phase 2, post formulation phase. Phase 1 includes primary feeding, additive proportioning, mixing and conveying to an extruder. Phase 2 of the dry end phase is the post formulation phase. This includes extrusion, pelletizing, conveying, blending, storage and load out systems. The equipment in the formulation phase assists with the primary feed, additive supply, additive feeder refill, additive proportioning and mixing/conveying. Preview video of Phase 1 of the dry end polyolefin production process.

This video animation visualizes many of the ways in which Coperion K-Tron can provide food processing automation solutions for food manufacturing operations. In this fly through you'll travel from raw ingredient delivery, to weighing and batching of food ingredients, to end-product feeding and conveying for mixing and extrusion.

ActiFlowTM ...a new Material Flow Aid

Video shows how feeding cohesive or other difficult materials results in the intermittent or inconsistent flow through the feeder’s hopper, impairing performance and halting the process. Video further demonstrates how the ActiFlow Smart Bulk Solids Activator reliably prevents bridge-building and ratholing of cohesive bulk materials before they occur, eliminating the need for mechanical vertical agitation. ActiFlow is used in loss-in-weight feeding applications.

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Pharmaceutical Loss-in-Weight Feeder

"Cleaning Made Easy"

Video demonstrates how the Coperion K-Tron pharmaceutical feeder meets the requirements of today's pharmaceutical processing environment, including quick clean ease of disassembly for cleaning and screw changeover, clear separation between production and technical areas, and screw removal and feeder access from production side. All gaskets and sealing material conform to 3A / cGMP standards, with video demonstating assembly and disassembly of the K-PH-ML-KT20.

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Smart Weigh Belt Feeder (SWB)

"Assemby & Disassembly Made Easy"

Coperion K-Tron's Smart Weigh Belt is the first weigh belt feeder to offer continuous online auto tare compensation. In the past, sticky products adhering to the belt of the feeder degraded weighing precision and caused the need for frequent cleaning, maintenance, and calibration. This video highlights how the Smart Weigh Belt feeder offers ease of use with auto belt tracking, improved belt tracking, and belt changing. Video demonstrates how belt is removed and then reassembled.

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"QC" Quick Change Feeder

"Optimal Versatility in Product Feeding"

Specially designed for applications requiring the maximum possible material handling and changeover flexibility along with the convenience of fast cleaning capability, Coperion K-Tron’s T35/S60 Quick Change Feeder is available in economical volumetric or high-performance loss-in-weight configurations

Bulk Solids Pump (BSP) Technology

Using Positive Displacement Feeding Technology, the Bulk Solids Pump (BSP) does not use screws, augers, belts or vibratory trays to convey material. Free flowing materials are fed via a rotating channel, delivering a true mass flow as the materials are positively displaced from inlet to outlet.

Video features an interview by Chemical Processing Magazine's Managing Editor and Coperion K-Tron Process Group's Director of Global Sales and Marketing, in addition to an interview with the Director of Sales for the Americas and the Director of Sales for Premier Pnuematics. Find out what's new from Coperion K-Tron!